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Bill Greenwell retires as Boys’ Latin varsity baseball coach after winning four MIAA B Conference titles and mentoring ...
Bill James during his time as the Boston Red Sox senior baseball operations advisor in 2008. (Charles Krupa / Associated Press) “Everybody accepts that now,” James said.
Baseball historian and author Bill James likens the endless numbers to "information dust." "And we're covered with debris," he added. James might seem an odd person to point this out.
Bill James, who spurred baseball’s analytics revolution, is waging a mini war on WAR November 20, 2017 Jose Altuve. left, was selected AL MVP over Aaron Judge despite ranking third in WAR.
One of my favorite Bill James lines was in "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract." Cecil Fielder was in his top 100 first basement and his bio was only a sentence. Most of his short bios ...
Bill James was working at a Kansas cannery when he came up with an idea that would transform baseball. The movie Moneyball tells the story of that idea and how the Oakland Athletics ran with it.
At his website, Bill James recently published a column entitled “Judge and Altuve,” as well as a follow-up column. Therein, James argues that Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is wrong to evaluate Aaron ...
From "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Bill James' new book, "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract." Check back Thursday for three ...
Baseball was Bill James hobby until he made a name for himself in the baseball world by analyzing players and statistics to project likely future results. One new hobby that replaced baseball was ...
Ben McGrath writes about Bill James, a statistician and baseball legend hired by the Red Sox to improve the team’s fortunes using “sabermetrics.” ...
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract consists of substantially new material, especially so in Part 2, which includes comments on your top 100 players at each position. And it seems to ...
Bill James keeps saying he wants to slow down. He wants to work less, wants to relax. But he can’t stop working—or thinking about baseball. "I have things I just have to know. I don't have a ...